Thanks for the welcome Alan. Merry Xmas! Hehe, thanks for the tip but I actually wanted to know how to get all Explorer Windows to have a status bar by default in Windows XP.
It's tedious to always switch it on this way every time you start go online etc. Thanks!

open I.E. then open a new window, then close the original window [its important that you close the 1st window], now click on view [in the second open window] and tick status bar, then close the second window.

Now hopefully it should be enabled on all open windows.

/me Keeps fingers crossed

If I have not explained the procedure to well, someone will give the correct way to do it.